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Tables of Contents for Beyond ADD
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
viii
Introduction: Why We Have Add
xiii
ADD is Profitable for Business
1
14
ADD is Profitable
3
4
Pop Psychology and the Media Encourage Victimness and Illness
7
5
ADD is Viewed as ``Bad'' Because Only ``Bad'' People Have Been Studied
12
3
Education and Our Children
15
36
``Good German Schools'' Come to America
17
8
American Schools Focus on Content Instead of Technique
25
3
Our Gifted Kids are Bored Silly
28
6
Education is More Important Today than in Years Past
34
4
Visual Learners in Auditory Schools
38
4
We Now See More ADD Because of Standardized Curriculum
42
4
Our Children are Losing Empathy Abilities
46
5
Genetics and Psychology
51
44
ADD Characteristics-Leftover Hunter Genes
53
12
What Maslow Overlooked: The Need to Feel Alive
65
19
ADD As Hypervigilance Run Amok
84
11
Social Adaptations
95
26
ADD Prevents Human Society from Ossifying
97
4
Morphic Resonance: The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon
101
6
``Normal'' People Are Really ``Abnormal''
107
5
Our Culture is Increasingly Intolerant of ``Different'' People
112
4
The Perception of Time
116
5
The Stress and Toxicity of Modern Life
121
26
Our Toxic Environment Neurologically Damages Fetuses
123
3
Nutritional Deficiencies
126
3
Ritalin is Such a Cool Drug
129
4
Life in America (and the Rest of the Industrialized World) is Getting Crazy
133
5
We're Living in the Last Days and the World's About to End
138
5
There Are Too Many People
143
4
Brain Chemistry and Physiology
147
24
Brain Irritations
149
4
Sugar and Sugary Foods Alter Brain Chemistry
153
3
Dysfunctional or Underdeveloped Frontal Brain Lobes
156
3
ADD as a Variation of Normal Male Behavior
159
3
ADD is Not Just One Thing
162
5
Some ``ADD'' May Really Be Undiagnosed Thyroid Disorders
167
4
Contemporary Lifestyles and Habits
171
32
Advertising ``Causes'' Add by Training Us to Have a Short Attention Span
173
7
A Variation on Approach/Withdrawal: Why ADD Often Appears Different In Women than in Men
180
3
We Lack Self-Discipline-Inducing Experiences in Childhood
183
3
Sunlight Starvation
186
3
We Lack Exercise
189
3
ADD is Useful in Our Workforce
192
4
Our Lost Rituals
196
3
ADD as a Challenge to Authoritarian Society
199
4
Summary: What Is This Thing Called Add Anyway?
203
2
Chapter Notes
205
4
About the Author
209
2
Index
211